Homoeocera duronia Druce, 1911

Druce, H. (1911). Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from
tropical South America, and two new species of Geometridae from West
Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 7: 287-294; p. 287.

Homoeocera duronia, sp. n.

Male.—Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen black; antennae black, tipped with
white, the base of the thorax and the last four segments of the abdomen
banded with red; the underside of the abdomen metallic green; the legs pure
white. Primaries hyaline, the base, costal margin, a spot at the end of the
cell, and a mark below the apex on the outer margin all black; the veins
dark: secondaries hyaline, the inner margin broadly black.

Expanse 1½ inch.

Hab. Colombia, 2700 m. (Mus. Druce).

Allied to Homoeocera rodriguezi, Druce.

Hampson, G. F. (1914). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum. Supplement, vol. 1 (Amatidae and Lithosiadae): p. 96, pl. V fig. 3.

334 a. Homoeocera duronia. (Plate V. fig. 3.)

Homoeocera duronia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 287 (1911).

♂. Head and thorax black-brown; antennae with the shaft white towards
tips; tibiae except towards base and tarsi pure white, the base of tibiae
suffused with metallic blue; abdomen black suffused with metallic blue, the
rough hair on basal segments black-brown, subdorsal orange spots at base,
the 4th to 7th segments with orange bands, the 4th segment with sublateral
orange spots. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins black; the base
black suffused with metallic blue, a white point at base and small subbasal
spot below costa; a discoidal black spot; the terminal line expanding into
a patch below apex and small wedge-shaped mark at vein 2. Hind wing
hyaline, the veins and margins black; the inner area clothed with
black-brown hair; the cell and basal costal area pure white. Underside of
fore wing with the base of inner area pure white; hind wing with the cell
and costal area black-brown.

Hab. Colombia, type † ♂ in Coll. Joicey. Exp. 40 millim.

Draudt, M. (1915). Homoeocera. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges (English edition):
p. 45.

H. duronia Druce. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen are black, the antennae
black with a white tip. The abdomen exhibits on the ventral side a bright,
bronze-green reflection. The first abdominal ring and the last 4 segments
are red-curled. Characteristic are the snow-white legs. The wings are
hyaline, the forewings with a broadly black base and costal margin, a black
median spot and apex; the hindwings are broadly black at the proximal
margin. Colombia.